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# sweating

«sweating» in Mova's school dictionary: **Giving out a salty liquid (sweat) through tiny holes in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (sweat, sweats, sweated or sweat, sweating — "sweating" is the -ing form); noun (sweating — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Giving out a salty liquid (sweat) through tiny holes in the skin, especially when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#m1)

2) Informal: worrying a lot about something: I'm sweating about the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#m2)

3) Working very hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#m3)

4) Of things like a cold glass or cheese, having little drops of water on the surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, sweating cools the body: sweat evaporates from the skin and takes heat away with it. This is why you sweat when you run or on a hot day; you need to drink water to replace what you lose. In health, sweating a lot with a fever is common when ill. In hygiene, sweat itself does not smell, but bacteria on skin make body odour, so wash and change clothes after sport. Phrases: "sweating buckets" (a lot), "no sweat" (no problem), "break a sweat", "cold sweat" (fear).

### examples

- I was sweating after running round the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x1)
- Drink water because you lose water when you are sweating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x2)
- The cold can of lemonade was sweating in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x3)
- Sweating helps cool your body down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x4)
- He was sweating with nerves before the spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x5)
- We were sweating buckets on the hot beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x6)
- Shower after sport to wash away the sweat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x7)
- Don't sweat it — you'll do fine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/#x8)

### note

Past form: "sweated" (American English also uses "sweat"). Pronounced "swet". "Perspiration" is a more formal word. A glass "sweating" is really condensation: water from the air turning to liquid on the cold surface — not sweat coming from the glass.

### In the corpora

- [Heatstroke is an emergency: a child who is hot, confused or stops sweating needs to be cooled and get help at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/18/)
- [Sun cream is put on again at least every 2 hours, and after sweating hard or towelling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/76-olympiad-body-numbers-clocks-and-scores/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sweating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.